What happens if you combine the First World War with an action-adventure film?
How are embroidery, and the women who do it, portrayed in the years after the First World War?
What did it take to be a good junior officer in the First World War?
How should we remember the man whose assassination sparked the July Crisis?
How do you turn the diplomatic exchanges before the outbreak of the First World War into a TV drama?
How does the landscape inform our understanding of a First World War film?
Could you play a board game about the First World War, during the First World War?
How do you portray a moment of peace during the First World War when it’s not always clear what actually happened?
How do you write a novel about the First World War without resorting to cliché?
What happens when a Sunday night crime caper takes the history of the First World War seriously?
Professor of Modern British History at Leeds University. My research interests lie at the intersection of the histories of gender, particularly masculinity, medicine and warfare.
A historian focusing on the First World War and popular representations of warfare. I received my PhD from the University of Sussex in 2013. My thesis examined relations between British and French soldiers during the First World War.
Is a Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds University. My current research focuses on manpower and authority in Britain, starting with the First World War and running through until the end of the Second World War.